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To: RC one
This is a bad situation, to be sure. And I understand what you are doing, I guess. But I still think we as freepers need to be accurate in our reporting, as we are now a primary news source.

I therefore have to mildly object to you posting five year old pictures of an event in LA and not putting them in context.

The clear implication you have created is that these kids in Morgan Hill have taken down the US flag and replaced it with a Mexican flag flying over a upside down stars and stripes. This did happen, once upon a time in LA, but not this week.

Now, I will agree that the two incidents are very similar, and the former can and should be brought up now to remind people that this is not the first time we've seen this.

But that still allows for proper captions and background. I'd hate to see Freepers now start saying "they were flying the flag upside down" when, as far as I know, that didn't happen in this case.

116 posted on 05/07/2010 12:20:20 PM PDT by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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To: Jack Black

just one more incident in a long train of similar such incidents. This incident clearly occured at Montebello HS and it was a big enough deal at the time that the incident remains fresh in the minds of many of us who follow such things. In fact, I would think most freepers wouldn’t need captions to recall that BS.


127 posted on 05/07/2010 12:49:33 PM PDT by RC one (WHAT!!!!)
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